Joshua Whitfield
November 27, 2019
As a priest, part of my gig is listening to people tell me their sins.
November 3, 2019
Religion is not in decline, though such are the headlines.
September 1, 2019
No better in our politics than primitives, we still invoke the gods.
August 11, 2019
Rodrigo’s son is Adrian. Adrian is disabled. Rodrigo works three jobs to pay for his care. Rodrigo brought Adrian from Peru to the United States 15 years ago, so he’d receive the best care possible, so he could live. Because Rodrigo loves Adrian, a father and a son.
July 27, 2019
Preaching to children belongs to the work of the priest.
August 4, 2024
What surprises me each time I read it is what they said to him, what they asked him: “Sir, give us this bread always.”[1]
July 28, 2024
Speaking of Moses and the manna given in the desert all those years ago, Jesus said, “You know, the bread your fathers ate in the desert didn’t last. They all died.”[1] It was, although miraculously delivered, just ordinary bread. And then he began to speak about his heavenly Father and the bread that he gives—not ordinary […]
June 2, 2024
Jesus Christ, risen and ascended: by the gift of the Holy Spirit given at Pentecost, the gift of the Father and the Son, the Holy Spirit who is God—a Trinity—he comes to us today, our Lord, every day, as food, as silent food and drink. Into a world often too busy to notice, before hearts which […]
May 25, 2024
I have a thing for artists—poets, painters, people like that.
May 19, 2024
I’m sure I’ve told this story before, about an old priest from Cilicia in southern Anatolia. It was centuries ago.
May 12, 2024
A mother was here earlier today. I stood with her, there in front of the altar.